This course in the Healthcare Marketplace specialization gives the learner an in-depth view of the intellectual property creation that is vital to creating breakthrough technologies. Included is an understanding of the strategy deployed for pricing drugs and new technologies as well as the market sizing exercise to identify where future research and development investments should be made.

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The Medical Device Industry: Bench Science to Bedside

In this module you will learn how medical device industry innovates and brings transformational products to market. The take-away messages from this module are that there are many exciting ideas that never make it off the cutting room floor of universities and research labs. Furthermore, those devices that do make it have to quite novel to compete in an increasingly crowded space. The skills gained from this module to enable a successful capstone is an appreciation of how medical devices are innovated a midst a sea of regulation and intellectual property constraints. You will be better prepared to under the features of likely successful medical device before it goes to market and competes to enhance and save lives.